This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about kindness and the big question was: How can we build community through our actions?
First, we explored some collaborative activities and discussed how we could include kindness and build a sense of community through our actions at camp. Next, we were organised into groups where we had to unpack the above question. In our groups we considered how we could spread community and kindness through our entire school community. We decided that we would offer something that was free and would make others happy.
We created an action plan and decided to do games with juniors ( which is the year 1/2 )
Reflection:
For our final product our group did playing games with the juniors on Mondays and Fridays half of the group went on the the backfield on Monday and the other half did it on the front court then on Friday we switched. It was hard at times but when we finished it was so worth it. The games we played were rob the nest, capture the flag ( this was on the backfield ) then the other half played doge ball, ball elimination and non stop tag. the people that were in my group were Corinne, Caoimhe, Santara, Ethan, Zac, Julian, Amelia, Lily and Eilish but when we halved I was with Santara, Corinne, Caoimhe, Lily and Zac but he only came when we were half way through it because he was helping the other half of the group. When it was time to finish we highfived, gave them a compliment such as good gob that was great you were amazing and much more and we also gave them lolly pops that really put a smile on there face.
How did our action build a sense of community in the school? by getting to know the people that have just started school, the people that I haven't seen before and now people know who I am as well so maybe when we see each other we could wave and even some of the year 1/2 could have met some new people.
I contributed by making sure that everyone had a say, agreed with everything everyone else said, and that all the year 1/2 were included and everyone had the job of making people happy while we did it.
I think the PBL might impact on others by getting more into games, working together as a team to win games, good team sports, making sure everyone gets a turn of getting the ball or what ever equipment they are using, for the game being fair and that playing games for others is a nice thing to do and it could make someone really happy!
What I learned about working with others was that if you all work together your idea gets better and better and funner for the people who are doing it and if you don't you can't really say everyone did it so if the group isn't working try and fix it and if they just don't like it try make it for interesting for them. and that if people are shy try help them to get a say in what you are doing because then they will feel more included!
if your school does PBL what do you do and what is your favourite thing that you have done so far?
